Biografía

In 2012, Perlman once again endured the 4-hour makeup routine required to transform him into Hellboy -- not for a sequel or other acting job but to fulfill the Make-A-Wish request of a six-year-old boy named Zachary who has leukemia. Creature effects house Spectral Motion applied Perlman's Hellboy makeup (and later also made up Zachary as Hellboy as well), and then Zachary got to spend the day hanging out with "Hellboy".

Does not speak French and was the only American on the scenery of the French film La ciudad de los niños perdidos (1995). Regardless, he learned most of his lines and delivered them without mistake.

With the creation of Hellboy II: El ejército dorado (2008), at age 58, he became the oldest actor ever to play a main superhero.

Early into his career, he attempted performing as a stand-up comedian.

Was friends with Sammy Davis Jr. They met at the Golden Globe Awards in the late 1980s, apparently Davis was a huge fan of La bella y la bestia (1987) and had seen every single episode.

I've always felt there were aspects of me that were monstrous, and you can either hide from it or confront it, embrace it and understand that those are aspects that make you unique and define you and motivate you. You can either overwhelm or overcompensate for them -- but they truly define you as a human being... So that life became a question of either dealing with this monstrousness in one way or another... One finds a way to understand and make friends with that monster and understand that that's the very thing that makes you who you are. That's your emotional and spiritual fingerprint.

I've done millions of mediocre movies. I've done way more than my fair share. You do what you gotta do. This is not heart surgery. I'm not curing cancer. I'm just trying to put my kids through school.

[on being a director] I don't like working with me. I would punch myself in the mouth if I had to take my direction.

[When asked what his idea of Hell is] Working at a job that you hate. Having a career and a life that you have no passion for. That's hell.

[on Guillermo del Toro] It seems as though we are like brothers. After knowing the guy for five minutes, it was one of these instances, where you felt, that you've known him for twenty-five years. This instantaneous friendship and recognition. Very, very similar way of viewing the world. And then we found, that working with each other, there was a real simpatico. And I think you could even say, that we are alter egos for one another. Like if he was an actor, he would be me and if I was a filmmaker, I would be him. We seem to be trying to make the same statement in the world.